He ordered aides to get the Israeli prime minister on the phone and then dressed him down sharply.
“It is a holocaust,” Mr. Reagan told Mr.
President, I know all about a holocaust.”Nonetheless, Mr. Reagan retorted, it had to stop.
Twenty minutes later, he called back and told the president that he had ordered a halt to the shelling.
“I didn’t know I had that kind of power,” Mr. Reagan marveled to aides afterward.
Persons:
Ronald Reagan, Reagan, Menachem Begin, Mr, Begin, “ Mr, Reagan marveled
Locations:
Lebanon, Palestinian